Long Xi Vlessing 龙喜:

I’m a photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, living and working on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including that of the Skwxwú7mesh, xʷməθkwəy̓əm, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ nations, and in Montréal, Québec (Tiohtià:ke), on the unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. 

Contact me: 

longxivlessing@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts — Specialization in Communication Studies (film/media studies), graduated with Great Distinction —Concordia University, Montréal 2022

Charles Gagnon Award, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal 2021

British Columbia Achievement Scholarship Award and District Authority Scholarship Award in Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, awarded by the Government of British Columbia 2018




EXHIBITION

for the love of the game, Céline Bureau & Espace Loulou, Montréal 2024

F*ck, what’s my job today? Lilypad Magazine, London, UK 2024

Wide Open, 32 Rue Beaurepaire, Paris, France 2024 

A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes, solo exhibition, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver 2023

Maternal Instinct, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver 2023

Scorch, VANS at Rialto Theatre, Montréal 2023

Blanket Song, film screening, Gathering Place Community Centre, Vancouver 2023

Head, VANS at Dillon Ojo Fest, Montréal 2023

Blanket Song, film installation, A Living Taste Gallery, Vancouver 2022

ISO, solo exhibition, 16 E Cordova, Vancouver 2021 

Quarantine Qapsule, collection of Emily Carr University of Art and Design library 2021




FILM

Blanket Song, short 2021

Short fashion film for Sever Studio, New York City 2021

Portraits d’arbres de Montréal, video collaboration with CitéStudio Montréal 2019

鬼佬 Foreign Ghost, short film (editor) 2018 FORM Festival of Recorded Movement, Vancouver 2018

PUBLICATION / COLLECTION

Club photographs in LIMINUL Magazine

Silver Steak, Wooden Spoon in Community Service Magazine

A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes
Concordia University Visual Collections Repository, Montréal 2024

ISO 
Hard Liver Library, Vancouver 2024
Suko Magazine, Montréal 2022
Emily Carr University of Art and Design Online Repository, Vancouver 2021
Canton-sardine Library, Vancouver 2021
Lasalu Art Library, Taipei 2021
British Columbia Quarantine Qapsule, BC 2021

SSENSE 2022/23 

Project 002: Play in Here, There, photo book by INTER-AGENCY 2021/23

Hardchive Reference Manual 2022

Orphan Film Symposium 13th edition, New York University 2022

James Jin for Another Species 2022

You say you love my waist but that means nothing to me because a body is a body is a body is a body, Aqua Regia Magazine, Issue 2: The Now Issue 2020

Untitled photographs, Aqua Regia Magazine, Issue 1: The Premier Issue 2020